Florence Mudzingwa

“Hope Resurrect Trust website”

“They often face triple jeopardy being disabled, their gender and unemployment. The Trust is therefore set out to empower and resurrect hope in the girl child with a disability to allow her to realise her potential and the impact she has in her community and society as a whole”

“Being a woman born with a disability I could relate to the challenges women and girls with disabilities face that drove me to establish the organisation. The girl child with a disability is marginalised in society, often bringing in a sense of hopelessness”

“The love and support of family.They made me believe that I can be anything in life as long as I work towards it.”

“The subjects I excelled in were Human and Social Biology, English, Integrated Science, Home Management and Commerce”

“At this school, a person could only write five subjects with female students taking up home management while males did biology but I chose to do both. The reason was because I was weak in mathematics so this strategy then helped me to attain five Ordinary levels”

“So I had to be careful of how I did things. If I fell or had any slight accident, I would easily get a fracture on the leg or arm”

“I did not face any challenges in primary school because the school I attended, St. Giles Primary School, accommodated children with disabilities only. Therefore I did not feel any different. The only challenge was with my disability because I was born with brittle bones.”